UnitedHealthcare FTW Again 🤦🏻‍♂️

UnitedHealthcare just kicked thousands of Johns Hopkins patients to the curb. That’s not a “network adjustment.” That’s a corporate mugging in broad daylight. Families who trusted one of the best hospitals in the world woke up to find their care turned into a luxury product they can no longer afford.

Here’s what that means in practice. A kid in Hopkins’ pediatric ICU with a rare disease now costs their parents hundreds of thousands of dollars because some United executive wanted better margins this quarter.

A cancer patient on a Hopkins clinical trial is forced to either bankrupt their family or abandon treatment. These are not hypotheticals. They are happening right now.

Both sides run the same tired playbook. The insurer blames Hopkins for “greedy billing.” Hopkins blames United for “refusing fair rates.” Both claim they are protecting patients. Meanwhile patients are maxing out credit cards, cashing retirement accounts, and begging strangers online to pay for chemo. You can almost hear the corporate lawyers laughing while they bill hours to draft those press statements.

This is not a broken system. This is the system working as designed.

Patients have no leverage. Insurers and hospitals treat human lives like poker chips in a high-stakes game. And they get away with it because regulators look the other way and the public has been conditioned to accept medical bankruptcy as normal.

I survived cancer. I’ve been watching this cycle play out for decades. Nothing changes until patients stop being the currency of healthcare deals. If continuity of care can vanish overnight because of a contract dispute, no one is safe.

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SOURCE ➡️ https://www.wmar2news.com/infocus/thousands-of-johns-hopkins-patients-lose-in-network-coverage-through-united-healthcare